St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-19
A Suspicion That Northwest
ern League Games Are
Being Sold.
s'HeIot" Gives the Matter a
Thorough But Impartial
Going Over.
Minneapolis Duplicates Its
School Boy Work of Sat-
urday in Milwaukee.
Standing of the League
Teams---The Ball Play
ers' Brotherhood.

A great deal of bad blood is coming
TO the surface i'll the last days of the
Northwestern league season. The air
is thick with rumors that games are be-
ing thrown, sometimes with and some
times without consideration, to affect
the result. FIRST came the report that
there was deal between Oshkosh and
Eau Claire by which the latter was to
lose all its games to Oshkosh and win
from other clubs as often as possible.
The consideration mentioned in this
transaction was box of cigars for each
game that would rebound to the adj
vantage of Oshkosh. This was quickly
followed by the statement of Jay Ander-
son, manager of the Duluth team, that
Oshkosh fixed Pitcher Brewster, tried
to get Brynan drunk. and in other
ways attempted to make a certainty of
the series with Duluth. Oshkosh then
charged that a deal was on between
Duluth and Milwaukee by which the
latter was 10 have all the games with
Duluth. Now comes the story that
Manager Foster, of Minneapolis, said
when in st. Paul that he would do
b. giving Oshkosh the seven games
yet to be played. The st. Paul, La
Crosse and Des Moines teams. accord
ing 10 these rumors, are the only ones
In the league that are playing straight
game. Ii these stories were true. st.
Paul and DeS MoineS would be out of
the race. and the peunant would go to
the Wisconsin team that was most sue
ceSSful i'll working out its schemes. But
the GLOBE prefers to believe there is
but slight foundation on which to base
any of them. The sporting editor of the
GLOBE is personally acquainted with
Secretary Chase, of the Oshkosh team,
and knows from association with him
for four OF five years that he would not
cOuntenance diShOnOrable methods i'll
securing the Northwestern league pen
nant. 1t is also hard to believe that
Manager Foster, of Minneapolis, feels
so unkindly towards st. Paul as to give
games TO other teams in order to take
the pennant away from Minnesota. At
any rate, this paper hopes that all
games are contested on their merits and
that the trophy will bear no faint of
fraud.
THIS WEEKS GAMES
will be pretty likely to settle the con-
test. The club having the lead next
pdI uIuiA HlSHl Will pIODdDIS IetdlD III
TO the seasons end. Milwaukee has
the lead. Oshkosh being one game be-
hind and st. Paul two. The first two
have the advantage of having to play
most of their games with the weak
teams. while st. Paul must play seven
teen of its twenty-one games with Des
Moines. Milwaukee and Oshkosh. st.
Paul. however, has seventeen of its
ttwenty-one games to play at home,
while Milwaukee has only four and
Oshkosh seven at home st. Paul,
therefore. still has fighting chance for
the pennant. This week st. Paul will
with Milwaukee. Minneapolis three
with Oshkosh and one with Des Moines,
Eau Claire two with Des Moines and
four with La Crosse. and Duluth four
with Des Moines and one with Oshkosh.
Me record is given below: